Bequests (September 28, 2017)Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.

The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising (April 28, 2016)A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before the British military killed hundreds, and executed sixteen including those who had signed the Proclamation of the Republic.

The Lost Partisans (April 25, 2016)Italy's April 25 holiday marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from fascism. This day in 1945, antifascist partisan units freed the northern industrial centers of Milan and Turin from the grip of Hitler and Mussolini's remaining loyalists, after Allied forces had swept through the country. Just three days later, in a humiliating epitaph to the twenty-year regime, partisans captured and executed il Duce and his entourage, hanging them upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. Now the resistance is remembered more as representing 'national unity' than working-class resistance to fascism.

Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared (April 25, 2016)Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing lessons, strength, and strategy from the global grassroots movements for change. This week commemorates the 39th anniversary of the first protest of the Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared.

Left Behind by Good Friday (April 1, 2016)In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.

One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims (January 8, 2016)In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.

The Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get Deleted as Selfies Pile Up (December 22, 2015)Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8" floppies replaced by 5.25" medium replaced by little 3.5" floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.

Who Supported the Khmer Rouge? (October 16, 2014)With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.

And The May Uprising Continues (May 20, 2014)Remembrance of the brave women and men of Gwangju, responsible for sowing the seeds of democracy in the Republic of Korea while opposing the infamous martial law and dictatorship. Ten days, starting from May 18, 1980, they made the streets theirs, challenging the might of the State. As the historic May Democratic Uprising is witnessing its 34 th anniversary, Gwangju is celebrating and reminding herself to keep the memory of resistance alive, resistance against oppression and injustice that their heroes had upheld.

Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution (April 25, 2014)On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.

Why History Makes Us Important (January 7, 2014)History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.

A Red Metamorphosis (2014)The following essay has been written and published in response to increasing requests from researchers for information on the background and development of historian Terry Irving and his approach to history.

Exile Islands, Then and Now (November 21, 2013)The increasing number of asylum seeker arrivals to Australia  more than 15,000 in 2013 alone  has become such an issue that in July former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took a new hardline stance, saying that no one arriving by boat would ever be allowed to settle there.

The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937 (September 4, 2013)210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.

How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books (July 30, 2013)I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened.

May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx (May 5, 2013)Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.

The Case for Grassroots Archives (May 2, 2013)Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.

Two in one? (April 10, 2013)The Second World War was and still is the example of the good war, a war that put an end to Auschwitz, a war fought not only by regular armies but also by mass movements of anti-fascist resistance.

Grassroots archive information sheet (November 24, 2012)Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.

Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory (October 14, 2012)CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called the battle of memory. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called the memory hole. Peoples history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.

Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution (October 11, 2011)As a Scottish-Jamaican mulatto radical preacher and leader of working class movements in 19th century London, Wedderburn has been identified as a linchpin of the Atlantic Working Class  that group of amorphous, multi-ethnic, subaltern peoples linked by the ocean in suffering and resistance around the Atlantic continents of Africa, the Americas and Europe.

Triangle Fire Remembered (March 1, 2011)March 25 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 145 workers, mostly young women immigrants. The factory, located on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Asch building near Washington Square in New York City, employed 500 workers.

Framing the Sixties (December 31, 2010)What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.

The Women Who Gave Us Christmas (December 24, 2010)In 1834, African American and white men and women members of William Lloyd Garrisons newly formed Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society saw Christmas as an opportunity to expose a hypocritical republic that proclaimed liberty yet held millions of African men, women and children captive as slaves. Women assumed the lead, boldly defying a society that denied them a public voice or political opinions. To finance the abolition cause, these women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts, and trumpeted anti-slavery messages.

May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee (April 30, 2010)Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.

SNCC at 50 (April 13, 2010)The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagining and working for a more righteous future.

Forging Change, Breaking Chains (March 1, 2010)Remembering and forgetting are not only things that people do; they are things that are done to them. In our time, the Black freedom movement of the mid-20th century is now both well remembered and selectively forgotten.

History's Mad Hatters (2010)Tea Party anger reaches far beyond the ranks of the modest Tea Party movement. It resonates with other Americans who understandably feel that political and economic elites, serving themselves at the expense of everyone else, have failed Americans. The big question is just exactly how (or even if) that private and personal rage gets transformed into moral and political outrage.

Spot The Difference (December 13, 2009)When I first brought up the similarity between Prussia and Israel (in a chapter dedicated to this theme in the Hebrew and German editions of my 1967 book, "Israel Without Zionists") it might have looked like a baseless comparison. Today, the picture is clearer. Not only does the senior officers corps occupy a central place in all the spheres of our life, and not only is the huge military budget beyond any discussion, but our daily news is full of typically 'Prussian' items.

Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered (October 26, 2009)John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again "punished" when its liberators came from the wrong side of the cold war and the Thatcher government send special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.

Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi (August 6, 2009)The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist lies about blacks that constituted the dominant ideas of the day is not nearly as important or significant as the fact that their working class values led them to ally with slaves to fight the racist ruling class. Racism came from the upper class, and anti-racism came from the working class -- black and white.

LIVING IN THE U.X.A. (2009)At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn't working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.

Voices of Asian Americans (September 1, 2008)Asian Americas: The Movement and the Moment is an anthology of some 30 entries written by Asian Americans who initiated or participated in social and community movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is about how they perceived the world, how they became involved in the movements, what they think they accomplished and learned through their involvement, and how their experiences and lessons shaped their own lives and can be linked to present-day struggles for social justice.

Theories of History (July 29, 2006)Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).

Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years (January 1, 2004)When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America, I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.

Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom (2001)Contrary to the views promoted by FHAO, the true facts about Germany during the Holocaust show that 1) working class Germans fought the Nazis; 2) anti-Semitism did not come from ordinary people; and 3) anti-Semitism was a weapon used by Germany's industrial and aristocratic elite to attack not only the Jewish minority but the entire working class.

A Century Later (1998)The year 1898 was a turning point for the American Republic in terms of boundary and economic establishment. Chomsky moves through the next 100 years during which America increasingly became involved in affairs outside of its borders.

Renewing Historical Materialism (1997)Ellen Meiksins Wood's Democracy Against Capitalism offers a sophisticated interpretation and defense of the core concepts of Marxism. The vision of socialism as the most radical democracy was always a minority understanding, but it was Marx's vision and it has appeared again and again throughout history. Ellen Wood has made a most valuable contribution to the struggle to realize that vision.

The Ghetto Fights (1989)On May 10th, 1943, the first period of our bloody history, the history of the Warsaw Jews, came to an end. The site where the buildings of the ghetto had once stood became a ragged heap of rubble reaching three storeys high. Those who were killed in action had done their duty to the end, to the last drop of blood that soaked into the pavements of the Warsaw ghetto. We, who did not perish, leave it up to you to keep the memory of them alive--forever.

Short History of the World Working-Class Movement from Lassalle to Neo-Liberalism (1988)This essay is a kind of "thought experiment", attempting to trace the career and impact of the "man of negation", ultimately theorized by Hegel as the "Prussian monarch" who "universally labors" in the realm of the state (and hence art, philosophy and religion) but whose "labor" does not transform nature, does not engage in what the Theses on Feuerbach call "sensuous transformative activity".

The Life of Death: An Exchange (1985)The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.

Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism (1976)The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.

The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia (1972)Chomsky considers the imperial interests of the USA in South East Asia, claiming that these are revealed in the Pentagon Papers. Then, after a detailed account of the content, he suggests that mere anti-communist goals were not the sole motivation for moving into the region but it was rather the "perceived significance of Southeast Asia for the integrated global system that was to be organised by American power."

Materialism And Historical Materialism (1942)Marxism is not an inflexible doctrine or a sterile dogma. Society changes, the proletariat grows, science develops. New forms and phenomena arise in capitalism, in politics, in science, which Marx and Engels could not have foreseen or surmised. But the method of research which they formed remains to this day an excellent guide and tool towards the understanding and interpretation of new events.

Against His-story, Against Leviathan!Author: Perlman, FredyHow Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labour, professional armies, social discipline, nationalist, ethnic and class fervour.

The Age of Empire 1875 - 1914Author: Hobsbawm, E.J.Covers the rise of bourgeois society, the growth of free market capitalism and the expansion of European colonialism abroad.

Age of ExtremesThe Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991Author: Hobsbawm, EricA overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.

Bitterly DividedThe South's Inner Civil WarAuthor: Williams, DavidHistorian David Williams lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars  an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.

The Black JacobinsToussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo RevolutionAuthor: James, C.L.R.An account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803.

The Canadian War on QueersNational Security as Sexual RegulationAuthor: Kinsman, Gary; Gentile, PatriziaFrom the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. This book traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance.

Das Capital, Volume 1A Critical Analysis of Capitalist ProductionAuthor: Marx, KarlMarx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.

The Cold War and the New ImperialismA Global History, 1945-2005Author: Heller, HenryThe Cold War is an account of global history since 1945, which ties together the narrative of the Cold War to that of neoliberalism and the new imperialism.Written for the general reader, it draws together scholarly research on a huge range of events, countries, and topics into an intelligible whole.

Fascism and Big BusnessAuthor: Guerin, DanielA history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.

1491New Revelations of the Americas Before ColumbusAuthor: Mann, Charles. C.A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.

A Green History of the WorldThe Environment and the Collapse of Great CivilizationsAuthor: Ponting, ClivePonting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.

A History of the Jews - Ancient and ModernAuthor: Halevi, IlanStarting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.

The Holocaust ChronicleA History in Words and PicturesA chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.

Homage to CataloniaAuthor: Orwell, GeorgeGeorge Orwell's account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.

The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western CivilizationAuthor: Lyons, JonathanArab scholars were exploring and extending the great works of the Persian, Hindu, and Greek civilizations. There were striking advances in the sciences and mathematics, but more fundamentally, the Arabs taught the importance of experimentation and rational thought. Eventually, through the efforts of men like Adelard, the accomplishments of the Arabs got through to the West, and shaped it.

Hungary 56Author: Anderson, AndyThe Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.

I Have Lived Here Since the World BeganAn Illustrated History of Canada's Native PeopleAuthor: Ray, Arthur J.Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.

I.F. Stone's WeeklyAuthor: Stone, I.F.Weekly newsletter published by I.F. Stone from 1953 to 1971. All issues between January 17, 1953 and December 1, 1971 are online.

Imagination in PowerThe Occupation of Factories in France in 1968Author: Hoyles, AndreeA brief study of the factory occupations which were a crucial component in the May 1968 events in France.

The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May DayAuthor: Linebaugh, PeterThis book's reflections on the Red and the Green -- out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies -- are populated by the likes of Native American anarchocommunist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant.

Industry and EmpireThe Pelican Economic History of Britian: Volume 3: From 1750 to the Present DayAuthor: Hobsbawm, E. J.Hobsbawm documents the rise of the industrial revolution in Britain from its origins around the mid 1700s, its expansion throughout the Victorian decades and finally its effects on British society up to the 1960s.

The Invention of the Jewish PeopleAuthor: Sand, ShlomoIn this new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times - when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.

Karl Marx's Theory of RevolutionVolume IV: Critique of Other SocialismsAuthor: Draper, HalMuch of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.

Karl Marx's Theory of RevolutionVolume 5: War & RevolutionAuthor: Draper, Hal; Haberkern, E.The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels' views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed -- evolved is a better word -- although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.

The Kronstadt CommuneAuthor: Mett, IdaA history of the Kronstadt Uprising 1921 which highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution. The suppression of the most revolutionary section of the Navy by the Bolsheviks was the final blow to any hope of a genuine revolution based on democratic workers' control. Mett dispels many of the contemporary mistruths put forward by Bolshevik propagandists and includes a number of original sources from the commune.

The Man Who Recorded the WorldA Biography of Alan LomaxAuthor: Szweed, JohnDocumentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.

The Many-Headed HydraThe Hidden History of the Revolutionary AtlanticAuthor: Linebaugh, Peter; Rediker, MarcusWith the expansion of trade and colonization around the Atlantic in the seventeenth century, sailors, indentured servants, market women, prostitutes, and slaves came to inhabit European cities, American colonies and trade ships. Linebaugh and Rediker show how this motley crew had their own versions of democracy.

Memory of Fire: Faces & MasksPart Two of a TrilogyAuthor: Galeano, EduardoA view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.

MirrorsStories of Almost EveryoneAuthor: Galeano, EduardoOpen any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.

The Nazi Seizure of PowerThe Experience of a Single German TownAuthor: Allen, William SheridanA study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.

Obsolete CommunismThe Left-Wing AlternativeAuthor: Cohn-Bendit, Daniel; Cohn-Bendit, GabrielAn account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.

Open Veins of Latin AmericaFive Centuries of the Pillage of a ContinentAuthor: Galeano, EduardoA political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.

Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017Collective Memory and Cultural AmnesiaAuthor: Diemer, UlliOur society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.

The Peasant War in GermanyAuthor: Engels, FriedrichThe Peasant War in Germany was the first history book to assert that the real motivating force behind the Reformation and 16th-century peasant war was socio-economic (class conflict) rather than "merely" religious.

A People's History of Prince Edward IslandAuthor: Sharpe, ErrolThe history of Prince Edward from a people's perspective, looking at how tenant farmers, independent merchants, fishermen, workers, and farmers fought ti improve their conditions and improve their society.

A People's History of ScienceAuthor: Connor, CliffordConnor focuses on the contributions of ordinary people living in ordinary times and the social and political history in which they lived. Spanning the time from the hunter-gatherers to the information highway and pharmaceuticals it can be divided into 3 broad sections: the years before the "scientific revolution", the years of that actual revolution and its modern consequence. For Connor scientific progress is the synthesis between the empirical hands on knowledge of the craftmen, labourers and tradesman and the intellectual thinker-knowledge that is both wide and deep.

A People's History of the United StatesAuthor: Zinn, HowardHoward Zinn attempts to present the history of the United States through the perspectives of common people rather than political and economic elites.

A People's History of the United States1492 - PresentAuthor: Zinn, HowardZinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.

A People's History of the WorldFrom the Stone Age to the New MillenniumAuthor: Harman, ChrisHarman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.

Poland 1980-82Class Struggle and the Crisis of CapitalAuthor: Simon, HenriHenri Simon captures the drama, the hopes and disappointments of workers' rebellions in Polish industrial cities in the early 1980s. This is a document of politicians practicing their skill at manipulation.

The Politics of HistoryAuthor: Zinn, HowardA series of case studies and essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role.

Seven Myths of the Spanish ConquestAuthor: Restall, MatthewRestall explodes myths that were long taken for historical truth and points to a larger and more complex interaction between the indigenous people and the Europeans. He shows how Indian culture adapted and displayed post conquest vitality.

Studies in the Development of CapitalismAuthor: Dobb, Maurice M.A.A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.

A Threat from WithinA Century of Jewish Opposition to ZionismAuthor: Rabkin, Yakov M.Rabkin brings to light continuing Jewish opposition to Zionism, a religious tradition which presents a fundamental challenge to the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.

Trotsky's History of the Russian RevolutionVolume OneAuthor: Trotsky, LeonA combination of dramatic narrative and searching analysis by one of the key figures in the Russian Revolution. Volume 1 cover the period up to the July Days  a semi-insurrection followed by attempted stamping out of Bolshevism in Petrograd.

Uncommon PeopleResistance, Rebellion and JazzAuthor: Hobsbawm, EricEssays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.

Unequal UnionConfederation and the Roots of Conflict in the Canadas, 1815 - 1873Author: Ryerson, Stanley B.Ryerson examines the connection between the social and the national in Canadian history.

An Unfinished RevolutionKarl Marx and Abraham LincolnAuthor: Blackburn, RobinA study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.

Vanguard of Retrogression"Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious CapitalAuthor: Goldner, LorenWhen one probes the terms of the debate, what is truly amazing is that the ostensibly anti-Eurocentric multiculturalists are, without knowing it, purveying a remarkably Eurocentric version of what the Western tradition really is. The ultimate theoretical sources of today's multiculturalism are two very white and very dead European males, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.

Wartime StrikesThe struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War IIAuthor: Glaberman, MartinThe history of the struggle against the no-strike pledge in the United Auto Workers of America (UAW) and the organization of the Rand and File Caucus, accompanied by an analysis of the question of working class consciousness in the light of this experience. Glaberman asks: What is the nature of working class consciousness and how does it relate to the question of whether the working class has the capacity to transform modern society?

The Washington Connection and Third World FascismThe Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1Author: Chomsky, Noam; Herman, Edward S.Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.

Year 501The Conquest ContinuesAuthor: Chomsky, NoamAn examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Year One of the Russian RevolutionAuthor: Serge, VictorThe purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the 'Commune-State' of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge's basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.

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